Who Can Benefit from Clinical Social Work Counseling?
• Children and adolescents with social and emotional difficulties: • social anxiety and/or depression • oppositional/defiant attitudes and behaviors • children with disabilities and secondary adjustment difficulties • eating disorders (obesity, anorexia, bulemia) • Parents who have recently given birth to a child with a serious medical condition or disability, who often feel a huge sense of loss and grief. • Parents of children who have physical disabilities or socio-emotional disorders, who are experiencing marital stress and strain. This strain may be financial or time-oriented, but has emotional consequences. (Parenting is hard enough—parenting the child with a disability can put unusual duress on a relationship.) • There may be huge discrepancies in the perception of the child’s difficulties between mother and father. One parent may appear to be “in denial”, while another may seem to be over-focused on the child, while ignoring the marriage. • Siblings of the child with a disabil
